GRE Word List
PHOENIX
a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period
The meaning of the word phoenix is a legendary bird which according to one account lived 500 years, burned itself to ashes on a pyre, and rose alive from the ashes to live another period.
Random words
| Word | Meaning |
|---|---|
| memento | something that serves to warn or remind |
| parity | the quality or state of being equal or equivalent |
| fetish | an object (such as a small stone carving of an animal) believed to have magical power to protect or aid its owner |
| salacious | arousing or appealing to sexual desire or imagination |
| decipher | decode |
| correlation | the state or relation of being correlated |
| impale | to pierce with or as if with something pointed |
| psychopathic | of, relating to, or characterized by psychopathy |
| cistern | an artificial reservoir (such as an underground tank) for storing liquids and especially water (such as rainwater) |
| verisimilar | having the appearance of truth : probable |